Comments on: On new BT phone lines and Internet service

By: Aral

Aral — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:03:51 +0000

Hey Andre,

I went with Be but apparently I could have gotten the same service (?) for less since I’m with O2 for my iPhone. Live and learn, I guess.

OTOH, I’m very happy with the Be service so far. Much faster than my previous provider (which was, ironically, fast.co.uk). I’m currently consistently getting 10Mbit/s downloads (both within UK and tried it with NY, etc.) and 1Mbit/sec uploads. The service is advertised as “up to” 24Mbit/sec down and 2.5Mbit/sec up.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:27:36 +0000

If you didn’t know, Tony Benn was a Minister for Technology and in 1976 had ordered that the Post Office telephone service should be replaced with 100Mb fibre optics.

It was scheduled to go ahead in 1979 – 30 years ago.

The current system used in Germany was what happened to the research done in Britain.

Japan is finalising Gigabit domestic broadband – and that’s a scary upgrade.

Speed is relative.

Tim

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:51:32 +0000

Hey Aral,

Now that you have the BT landline, are you sticking with their internet service?

I was thinking of getting the 16mb O2 broadband. Seems like a good deal, but I might be wrong.

It’s crazy how the ISPs here in the UK are so far behind from other countries :/